Michael Geerts and Salvatore Caruso will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Antalya Challenger for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Salvatore Caruso who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Salvatore Caruso is the pick to win this match.
Salvatore Caruso -> 1.51
Michael Geerts -> 2.43
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Prediction and head to head Michael Geerts vs. Salvatore Caruso
This will be the 2nd time that Michael Geerts and Salvatore Caruso fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Caruso (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Caruso won 7-6(5) 6-4 in the qualifications in Antwerp back in 2020.
Michael Geerts
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 50-37 | 18-11 | 10-12 | 17-13 | 0-1 | 5-0 |
| 2023 | 32-39 | 13-10 | 13-19 | 6-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
| 2022 | 42-37 | 5-8 | 24-14 | 11-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2021 | 35-28 | 13-7 | 14-14 | 8-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 4-1 |
Ranked no. 243, Geerts reached the 2nd round after beating Li Tu 6-70 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round against Tu, Geerts recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-70 6-0 6-2). During the match, Geerts scored 103 points vs Tu’s 85. Michael was very aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Regarding the service games, Geerts managed to score 2 aces and he committed only 3 double faults. Michael Geerts conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 5 break points. Furthermore, Geerts put 61% of his first serves in, winning 66% (40/61) of the points behind his 1st serve and 64% (25/39) on the 2nd serve. The Belgian broke Tu 5 times after converting 36% of his break points (5/14).
Geerts has winning match record in the last 10 years having won 58% of his matches (285-203). 1-0 on clay in 2023. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this tournament, Geerts has an overall 101-75 match record in the last years on clay.
The Belgian has a compiled 7-8 win-loss record in 2023, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Antalya Challenger
Geerts has never competed in this tournament before.
Salvatore Caruso
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-12 | 8-9 | 4-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 38-36 | 6-6 | 32-30 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-24 | 10-6 | 10-13 | 1-4 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 16-25 | 9-9 | 7-11 | 0-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-20 | 7-8 | 8-8 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 342, Salvatore got to the 2nd round after defeating Aleksandre Shvangiradze 6-0 6-0, Edoardo Lavagno 6-3 1-0 ret. and Nikolas Sanchez-Izquierdo 6-78 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round against Sanchez-Izquierdo, Caruso recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-78 6-4 6-2). During the match Caruso scored 108 points vs Sanchez-Izquierdo’s 95. Salvatore was extremely aggressive to blast 50 winners.
About the serving games, Caruso scored just 1 ace during the entire match and he committed only 2 double faults. Salvatore Caruso lost the serve 3 times and he saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Caruso put 69% of his first serves in, winning 64% (50/78) of the points behind his 1st serve and 57% (20/35) on the 2nd serve. Salvatore broke Sanchez-Izquierdo 6 times after converting 67% of his break points (6/9).
Caruso’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Manama Challenger.
Caruso has a compiled 8-4 win-loss record in 2023, 3-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Geerts | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 3 | 8 |
| Tot Games | 27 | 53 |
| Pts | 103-85 | 205-142 |
| Total Points | 188 | 347 |
| Winners | 40 | 80 |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% |
Geerts played 1 match while Caruso competed in 3 matches. Caruso started his run from the qualifications while Geerts had a direct access to the main draw. Both players lost a set in the event. Michael Geerts lost 1 set, while Salvatore Caruso surrendered 1 set. Geerts has played 5 set(s) less than Caruso (3 vs 8). Therefore, Geerts played 26 games less than Caruso. The Belgian scored 40 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Italian fired 80 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Geerts | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2 |
| 1st in | 61/100 | 115/167 |
| %1st in | 61% | 69% |
| 1st pts | 40/61 | 80/115 |
| %1st pts | 66% | 70% |
| 2nd pts | 25/39 | 32/52 |
| %2nd pts | 64% | 62% |
Geerts bagged 2 aces . Caruso fired 6 aces (2 per match). Geerts won 66% points on his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 64% of the points. On the other side, Caruso won 70% of the points behind his first serve. He had a solid display on his second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Geerts | Caruso |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 15 |
| Converted | 5/14 | 15/28 |
| % Converted | 36% | 54% |
| Conceded | 5 | 9 |
| Saved | 5 | 5 |
| % Saved | 100% | 56% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 |
Michael broke his opponent 5 times with a 36% conversion rate. Geerts had a solid display on his serve as he has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points. Salvatore broke his opponents 15 times with a 54% conversion rate. Caruso conceded his serve 4 times and he saved 56% of the break points that he conceded.
| Geerts | |||
| R1 Tu |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-70 6-0 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 3 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 27 | |
| pts | 103-85 | 103-85 | |
| Total points | 188 | 188 | |
| Winners | 40 | 40 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 61/100 | 61/100 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 40/61 | 40/61 | |
| % 1st pts | 66% | 66% | |
| 2nd pts | 25/39 | 25/39 | |
| % 2nd pts | 64% | 64% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/14 | 5/14 | |
| Converted % | 36% | 36% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 5/5 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Caruso | |||||
| Q1 Shvangiradze |
Q3 Lavagno |
R1 Sanchez-Izquierdo |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-0 | 6-3 1-0 ret. | 6-78 6-4 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 12 | 10 | 31 | 53 | |
| pts | 57-21 | 40-26 | 108-95 | 205-142 | |
| Total points | 78 | 66 | 203 | 347 | |
| Winners | 15 | 15 | 50 | 80 | |
| %Winners | 26% | 38% | 46% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 17/29 | 20/25 | 78/113 | 115/167 | |
| % 1st in | 59% | 80% | 69% | 69% | |
| 1st pts | 15/17 | 15/20 | 50/78 | 80/115 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 75% | 64% | 70% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/12 | 3/5 | 20/35 | 32/52 | |
| % 2nd pts | 75% | 60% | 57% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 3/8 | 6/9 | 15/28 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 38% | 67% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0/1 | 5/8 | 5 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | 63% | 63% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
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